only output the nth line

[Bryn M. Reeves]

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On 05/12/2010 05:58 PM, Jozsi Vadkan wrote:
> And i want to only output the first, second, and fourth line to another
> file.
> 
> The:
> 
> sed -n '1,2p;4p' file.txt

Works for me:

$ sed -n '1,2p;4p' /tmp/t  # t contains lines numbered 1, 2 etc.
1
2
4

$ sed -n '1,2p;4p' /tmp/file.txt # file from original post
daemon
1):
0

What goes wrong when you try it?

Regards,
Bryn.
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